The European Union has selected the ROBOX proposal as H2020 project. This project has 19 partners and will be coordinated by DSM Geleen. The proposal "ROBOX: Expanding the Industrial Use of Robust Oxidative Biocatalysts for the Conversion and Production of Alcohols" took first place in the selection.

Yearly Archives: 2019

The new product biopropane (biopropane liquid gas- bioLPG) has just come onto the market as a large scale product. Neste has started up the world’s first large-scale renewable propane production facility in Rotterdam with their new facility having a production capacity of 40,000 tonnes per year. BioLPG can be used within a full range of…

Purifying water is one of the great challenges facing society and now biotechnology is being used to improve water purification techniques. This is very important for removing pollution and producing water thst is safe to drink (desperately needed in poorer countries). Aquaporin is a Danish company named after a protein that transports water molecules across…

In an interesting preliminary report scientists claim feeding seaweed to cows could slash the amount of climate change-inducing methane emissions from their burps. A small amount of marine algae added to cattle food can reduce methane emissions from cattle gut microbes by as much as 99 per cent. Whilst their early results are yet to…

During the course of ROBOX a number of public deliverables have become available which describe more details. The ones below give an ovderview of the technical work in the ROBOX project- Completion of benchmarking protocol and flowsheets established for the case studies Identification of genes predicted to encode relevant robust BVMOs and oxidases Structural elucidation…

Studies on a bacterium found in camel crickets is capable of breaking down lignin, the material that makes wood tough which can help the development of biofuels and chemical manufacturing using woody type materials. Lignocellulose is a renewable and abundant energy source and efficient syntheisis of lignocellulosic biofuels in a sustainable and economically manner would…

The EU are publishing a lot of ROBOX outcomes and results on their website based on our reporting. This includes an overview in six languages “Delivering a robust set of oxidative enzymes as biocatalytic tools for green chemistry” where you can get an overview of results and impacts. You can see more result summaries at…

This two days of cutting-edge research on July 30th & 31st in the idyllic setting of one of Oxford’s most historic colleges – Worcester College. ChemBiOx 2019 is a student-led chemical biology and medicinal chemistry conference organised by the inaugural cohort of the University of Oxford’s doctoral training partnership with GSK and the Francis Crick…

Read the latest ROBOX paper from our partner RUG – “What to sacrifice? Fusions of cofactor regenerating enzymes with Baeyer-Villiger monooxygenases and alcohol dehydrogenases for self-sufficient redox biocatalysis” This is the latest of our publications that demonstrate the usefulness of our enzymes in factsheets and these reactions have been used to synthesize multi-kilogram quantities of…